Open AccessMythologem with a Snake: Constructing the Myth of Cavalry-Maiden
Author(s) -
N. N. Puriaeva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1. problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury/izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1, problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-7151
pISSN - 2227-2275
DOI - 10.15826/izv1.2020.26.4.066
Subject(s) - legend , mythology , allusion , serpent (symbolism) , adversary , narrative , literature , context (archaeology) , art , greek mythology , history , ancient history , archaeology , computer science , computer security
The article is dedicated to a narrative element that can be found in a number of texts featuring Nadezda Durova, we refer to it as an episode with a snake. The article hypothesizes that the episode is a mythologeme that has several meanings. Based on the results of the study, the following conclusions were made regarding the episode with a snake: it refers to an ancient Greek myth of Hercules’s childhood; it appears as an allusion to the biblical legend of the serpentadversary; it acts as an allegorical image of the enemy conquest. Thus, in the studied number of texts featuring Durova the episode with a snake acquires significance of a mythologem, which in the context of her story denotes the initiation of the heroine.